Archive for September, 2007

links for 2007-09-20

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Revisited: What am I missing? (admin help [still] needed!)

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Thanks to those who responded to my previous bleat for help, I have been back to try and get this working but still no luck!

The situation is as follows:

  • Domino 7 sever running on RHEL as a guest in VMware
  • I can ping from the host both IP address and hostname of the guest
  • I can ping the host from the guest
  • The Domino server is up and running and I can connect over http and run the Domino web admin
  • nmap shows port 1352 as open on the guest
  • I have allowed incoming traffic from the guest to the host in my firewall
  • the VM has a fixed IP addressed and is running in host-only mode
  • I have added the IP address and FQHN for the guest to my host’s “host” file
  • I can connect to the guest from the host via SSH and FTP

The continuing problem is that I can’t connect from the Notes or Admin client on the host. I’m not sure whether I made that apparent before. I have tried the following:

  • I have a connection document configured for the server.
  • I have tried using both a FQHN or the IP address as destination address
  • When I try opening a database and enter the server name, I get the error:
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    IBM Lotus Notes
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    The server is not responding. The server may be down or you may be experiencing network problems. Contact your system administrator if this problem persists.
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    OK
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  • When I try opening a database and enter the IP address, I get the error:
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    IBM Lotus Notes
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    Unable to find path to server. To trace this connection, use File - Preferences - User Preferences - Ports - Trace (Notes client) or Trace command (Domino server)
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    OK
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To me this makes no sense, and is beyond my networking problem-solving abilities, I feel I can’t see the wood for the trees!

Has anyone else done this? I can’t imagine I’m the only one! So I must be missing something simple, right? Any ideas most welcome!

In the meantime, I going to install a Notes client in another guest VM and try to get them talking.

Wish me luck!

Beware of Skype…(?)

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On Sunday, August 5, 2007 Bush signed the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) into law, in which the U.S. Congress spinelessly caved in and gave legal authority to the Bush administration to continue to intercept and spy on electronic communications. Then, on Thursday, August 16, 2007 the whole worldwide Skype network goes down. Coincidence?

Read on…..

And make up your own minds.

I’m not making any comment one way or the other, and don’t want to bring politics into this, but just the thought that this could be done is rather worrying!

Via a comment on a post from Chris.

New to Me . . . too!

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Still catching up with email and blog reading, not helped by the excitement over the Notes Domino 8 release while I was away!

This post from Michael Smelser caught my eye:

The functionality I am referring to is running the Notes client in “Kiosk” mode, that is running a Notes application as if it were a stand alone product. What this does is it launches an application full screen on a users computer with no toolbars or bookmark bars.

So how do we manage it? Easy!

To launch the application in Kiosk mode use this in your Notes icon, startup script, whatever:
“[path to Notes executable]” /kiosk “[path\db.nsf]”
(e.g. “C:\Program Files\lotus\notes7\nlnotes.exe” /kiosk “af\main.nsf”

I didn’t know how this was done either, thanks Michael!

links for 2007-09-04

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Back from holiday

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Yes, the holiday imposed blog silence is over, back to the real world!

Not that anyone out there will have noticed! ;-)

Spent a few weeks away with the family in various parts of Spain, with no access to the Internet. Thoroughly enjoyed!

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